Patrice Lamarque wrote a great article about the eXo overall architecture. It covers the existing products but also the incoming ones like eXo KS or eXo LR
We have just posted it in the wiki
eXo All In One version 1.0 has just been released.
This product is a special packaging of all the other individual products like Portal, WebOS, ECM or CS into a single application server.
This package includes the products:
- Portal 2.1
- Webos 1.0
- ECM 2.0
- CS 1.0
You can download it from OW2 forge
A subscription version will also be available soon and it will include each dedicated product with its subscription version number.
Open Source is a great way to have your software distributed globaly all over the world and the common language for that is english.
But once you have made the first contact, a localized platform is really needed.
With our main market being in Europe, we have the luck to have some customers that ask us to translate the platform in many languages.
The last translation we made is German
Translating eXo Platform is really a simple task as all the labels are stored in a set of properties files. Feel free to contact us if you want to contribute a language
We’ve just uploaded the official build for eXo CS 1.0 on ow2 forge.
This one replaces the previous community build as it was upgraded to latest CS 1.0, portal 2.1 and portlet container 2.0 final.
CS 1.1 is on track and should be there by september. You can follow our progress on JIRA.
We have just setup a live demo for eXo Collaboration Suite at http://cs.demo.exoplatform.org.
Update: Too many request, we need to add servers, the demo will come back soon
Update2: Back online, you can go to the demo server to test it.
Sign up and discover the brand new eXo CS apps by yourself. Please note that we don’t keep data on this server: all accounts are fully erased nightly
Don’t forget to send feedback at cs@exoplatform.com.
For those who are interested in trying on their own server, we have uploaded a CS Community build on ow2.
Enjoy!
We are proud to announce the availability of eXo Collaboration Suite 1.0.
eXo team has been working hard to build a full featured collaboration suite that sits on top of eXo Portal. CS 1.0 applications are rich portlets that run on top of eXo Portal 2.0 or eXo WebOS 1.0.
Main functionalities are :
For more details, have a look at the product presentation on eXo Platform website.
Professional binary downloads are available uppon request. For the community, you can already checkout the source code from SVN.
San Francisco, JavaOne, May 8th 2008 – eXo Platform SAS, collaborative software editor, has launched today its eXo WebOS 1.0, a desktop virtualization platform through the Web.
A platform that brings the best Web 2.0 pratices in organisations
eXo WebOS 1.0 is a desktop virtualization platform, accessible from a multi-windowed web interface that enables to access many add-ons in an easy and intuitive way.
Among these, we can find complementary modules developed by eXo Platform, such as :
eXo Enterprise Content Management 2.0 (eXo ECM 2.0) which brings various and rich functionalities in document management capabilities that enables to capture, manage, store, preserve and access/deliver any type of document. Moreover, advanced workflow functionalities enable an effective management of team members who are working together on documents.
The eXo Platform collaborative suite (eXo CS) regroups all the tools needed for a better team working and for a closer collaboration between team members. This suite comes with an email client supporting all email standards, a calendar that can be shared as required, and an address book that can also be spread among users.
In order to allow more effective communication and collaboration, eXo Platform is developing two complementary components for the Collaborative Suite
With the new working methods associated to the Web 2.0, eXo WebOS 1.0 has been designed to enable companies to take benefits from the best Web 2.0 practices. Every user, that can be customers, partners, providers or internal users, can personalize their own user experience through an intuitive interface displaying services adapted to their team needs, their role in the company and their collaborative needs.
As Benjamin Mestrallet, eXo Platform CEO, highlights it : “In addition to the fact that we developed powerful administration tools to answer more and more complex issues that are facing information system managers, we wanted this new portal, as all eXo modules, to be easy to access and handle for our customers.”
A solution easy to deploy and that fits perfectly the existing information system
Flexibility and adaptability qualities of the solution eXo WebOS 1.0 that enable a fast deployment based on service oriented architecture (SOA) adapted to the organisation and its processes. eXo WebOS 1.0 helps the company to quickly adapt to environment changes allowing developers to easily create new services.
The security and user management of eXo WebOS 1.0 have been improved to accelerate integration and deployment of the solution in the information system. Users can be managed using different databases that can be combined to any LDAP server.
« As part of setting up the new portal for the M6 group, the eXo solution has been a key to success in this project », stresses Benjamin Paillereau, Expert Consultant for Interakting, the interactive agency of the Business and Decision Group. « We have understood the complexity of the M6 architecture and brought solutions to issues that are specific to the media environment with a real autonomy for the customer. eXo provided us a platform on which we have created our services. This task has been easier than expected, thanks to the services management tools integrated to the eXo framework. Moreover, eXo respects the standards, so we could focus on pure business aspects of the project instead of the portal construction. Concerning the solution flexibility, the logic chosen by eXo to use a standard publication workflow that can be easily modified by a Groovy script, for instance, helped us to cover the functional perimeter in an effective way. Finally, the modular and open structure of the platform is a great advantage which enabled us to fine tune the system while controlling every consequences, even if not expected. The eXo structure enabled Interakting to provide a flexible solution with high control over risks. »
An intuitive solution integrating reliable standards
The respect of the standards and the will to improve them are important development vectors in the eXo Platform product strategy. So, « the open structure and the flexibility of the eXo platform are valuable assets » says Patrick Cambier, Integration Services Manager at Bull Belgium. « Architect of an open world and leader of the open source integration in Europe, Bull is partner with eXo for a long time and is one of the major contributor to the eXo community for ObjectWeb/OW2. This partnership enabled us to win together one of the most important Open Source project in Europe : the implementation of the collaborative platform and the document management system for the Service Public Fédéral des Finances (SPFF, Belgium Minister of Finance) in Belgium. Thanks to a mix of Bull services and eXo Platform innovations in the RIA and WebOS areas, this project will enable 30.000 SPFF users to benefit from the most complete and integrated open collaborative suite leveraging Web 2.0 practices ».
An eXo team, fully dedicated to usability and design of the solution, made eXo WebOS easy to use. Thanks to all the integrated wizards enabling users to quickly create new pages. An extensive use of AJAX enables eXo WebOS 1.0 to come with a new page dynamic : only the content that need to be refreshed is updated, increasing the system performance and scalability.
Moreover, eXo WebOS 1.0 supports latest portlet standards JSR 286 and WSRP 2. The JSR 286 standard, evolution of the JSR 168, offers a better AJAX support and a better portlet coordination due to an event management model. These portlets, called portlets 2.0 are capable to communicate and interact together, sharing parameters and content.
About eXo Platform SAS
French company founded in 2003 and now employing more than 70 employees, eXo Platform is developing a collaborative software suite that is based on an innovative enterprise portal solution which enables the virtualization of the workspace through an advanced WebOS interface. Standing in the international market, eXo Platform count as its customers the American Department of Defense, the Belgium Financial Minister, the State of Geneva and multiple french governmental offices and private companies.
For more information about eXo Platform and its products, go to : http://www.exoplatform.com
eXo Mail is an application part of eXo Collaboration Suite (eXo CS)
It includes many many features and today I will introduce one of my favorite: the different views available to read the mail list.
The first one is the thread view which displays the related message in a tree as shown in the next screenshot:
In fact there exist 3 default views: the normal list view, the threaded view and the conversation view
The conversation one is a bit like the gmail view
Enjoy!
At the eXo WebOS launch party we introduced a new Product in our line: eXo Liveroom
This product includes 3 applications that we will unveil little by little (IM, whiteboard and videoconferencing)
Here is the first screenshot of our chat portlet. We still need our web design team to do his job on it 
It is based on jabber / XMPP protocol and leverages the eXo Contact application part of eXo CS product
The eXo forum application, part of the new product eXo Knowledge Suite (KS), is very close to a beta state.
This application has many many features which is quite impressive for a first version. In fact we have been working on it for almost 10 months now. As for all the other applications, the persistent layer is based on eXo JCR which, once again, allow a single storage repository for all your contents.
Here are some screenshots:
And many many more…